By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based KLab announced today that the number of registered users playing their social games crossed the 20 million mark at the end of September. The company offers around two dozen different titles across Mobage, Mixi, GREE, the App Store and Google Play (direct), and the soon to be released...
What an exit today in Japan’s social gaming industry: Korean gaming powerhouse Nexon (currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a US$6 billion market cap – more than DeNA or GREE) has acquired gloops (corporate site). The size of the deal reaches a staggering Yen 36.5 billion...
Lord Of The Dragons, the first English-language title by Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker KLab, has hit the top spot in the US App Store ranking for free games. According to KLab’s press release, this was the case on September 28 (and probably for a few hours) only, and God knows...
A few weeks after the first cautious announcement, GungHo finally announced they will take Puzzle & Dragons, their impossibly successful mobile social game, global today. The title was launched in Japan in February on iOS and got ported to Android just last week. Puzzle & Dragons is...
The first “Social Gaming Asia Summit” is going to take place in Macau in November, and as the name suggests, it will be a very Asia-focused industry event. The website of the event can be found here (full brochure download), and it’s still possible to register for it here. The...
Nobody can be really surprised about this, but I myself have been wondering why Japan’s big telcos keep refusing to enter the country’s big social gaming market for years, especially as all three are aggressively moving from data and voice to content sales. But today the local mobile...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry